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From: jrozbori@udenva.cair.du.edu (Jim Rozboril)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SHOW USERS
Message-ID: <9808@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 88 18:32:37 GMT
References: <nbires!isis!udenva!jrozbori@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <8802150816.AA25306@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jrozbori@udenva.UUCP (Jim Rozboril)
Organization: U of Denver
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In article <8802150816.AA25306@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> ISSWWH@NUSVM.BITNET (Choy H. W.) writes:
>Jim Rozboril says:
>
>SHOW USER indicates 1 extra user than actually present.
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>-------------------------------------------------------
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>Can u elaborate on the circumstances, hardware/software levels,...?
>This is extremely intriguing!! >:-)
>
>Choy Heng Wah
>

I am posting this to thank all who responded and to clear things up
for anyone else who might be curious.

After checking things out further, I realized that this only occured on
the nodes which were running CMU's TCP/IP.  Several kind folks who were
familiar with the product indicated that the problem was due to the fact
that the name server deamon was started as an interactive process.  When
I changed things so the process starts as a detached network process, show
users reports things correctly.

Again, thanks to all who helped.

jim rozboril
univ. of denver